Stoller Hall, Manchester Friday, 30th August 2024 Rickie Lee Jones became an overnight sensation following the release of her debut, eponymous, album in 1979. Chuck E’s in Love, her jazz-influenced, toe-tapping, joyful first single, became an immediate hit and soon…
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Kalandra have been a vehicle for Katrine Stenbekk’s enchanting voice, her poetic lyrics and her vibrant live performances since 2013. A Frame of Mind is the band’s fourth fuller length release following the debut EP Beneath the Breaking Waves, the…
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This new three-hour package, which includes 3CDs and a Blu-ray disc, really is a game of two halves, since it includes the full setlist from the second night of the pair of September 2023 concerts at London’s Cadogan Hall, followed…
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In a recent interview, by Blake Maddux, Jon Anderson had this response to what we could expect from his upcoming album True. “You’re going to enjoy it. It’s called True. We had a great tour together; then a couple of…
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Since the break up of Anathema, Vincent Cavanagh has shifted his focus to creating audio pieces to accompany installations for visual artists. This particular journey began in 2017, in the year that Anathema’s final recording The Optimist was released, when…
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F Project is a solo venture from a Canadian musician by the name of François Meg. His genre is described as ‘guitar-based rock’, which doesn’t quite tell the whole story, as you may expect. His songs are instrumental and whilst…
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Since I started this hobby 18 months ago, I have been dreading this moment coming. It is probably because I am not musical in the slightest, I just love listening to music, that I tend to be in awe of…
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Whilst the Nordics have given us the lighter side of pop with Abba, A-ha and Roxette they also have a history of creating intense, moody and dark forms of rock and metal music, and over recent years have become a…
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Trifecta’s second album, The New Normal is an album of fusion music, combining any number of genres and as such it won’t be to everyone’s taste. It is the equivalent of picking up a comic, such as the Beano or…
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The culmination of a long period as a highly successful session musician and collaborator sees Oliver Wakeman return to solo pursuits. A window of opportunity has enabled songs that had been in development over the last decade or more to…
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